Social Question

If I could, I would bring back ...

If you had the power, what would you want to bring back the most? It could be something from your past or anything from human’s entire history. It can be anything from a way of life to a TV show a clothing style or something personal.

Why would you bring it back? How would your life and our world change if it was brought back?

My little sister, who should have been…… I always thought as a kid that maybe I wanted her too much, that’s why she never made it…She deserved her chance….. That’s why now, even as an adult, I never make a fuss in looking forward to anything too much as it might never happen :-/
A bit deep but there you go…... sorry folks…......

I’d bring back my dad, who’s been gone for 40 years. A gadget freak in the earliest days of such advanced devices as the electronic calculator, he’d have a houseful of computers, tablets, music players and who-knows-what-else today, even though he’d be in his 90s.

It’s more of a point in time that I wish I could alter. I wish I could alter what happened directly after my first daughter’s birth, so that I would have been healthy and able to bond with her and take care of her, instead of my mom having to do it.

The idea of manners and social observances not being anti-progressive but valuable for strangers and acquaintances to act decently to one another without the idea they’re pretending they are friends or confidants.

The Smiths and records/record players. There’s an aesthetic there that you can’t replicate with music you can buy now. Oh, and I’d bring back my great-grandparents. I miss them, and never really kept in contact with them as they got older and I reached adolescence.

I’ve thought about this a lot over the years but truth is I don’t wanna bring back people…no matter how much I love them and miss them and want to see them again.I don’t want them to go through life’s difficulties all over again.I don’t want them to even have the tiniest chance of getting hurt by coming back….
But I would definately want my cat lucky back.She died in a motorbike collision and I want to stroke her again….

@woodcutter Mostly. I think what @Symbeline means is that she wants them to come back in popularity and regular use. It’s like saying I want to bring back bell-bottom jeans, when you can still find them in some stores today.

This is a hard question…My first impulse was to answer that I would want to experience some of the things I have experienced in the past year that were so wonderful. But, truth be told, experiences lived through again would not be the same, especially if one had prior knowledge of them, what was going to happen, etc. Perelandra, by C.S. Lewis, has an interesting perspective on this, where it is considered wrong to try an recreate the same experience over and over again, and how trying to do this would ultimately ruin the experience as a whole.

I think too that wanting to bring back people in our lives is a natural thing, but is not meant to be, for the most part. Although it’s easier said than done, we should not live our lives wanting this, but try to move on past the regret.

That being said, I want to bring back the days that gas was .99 cents/gallon…:)

Haha yeah, Tintin rocks. I read em all so many times, my dad had the whole collection. It was interesting because he got em all when he was a kid, but later re-bought some of the books because the old ones were all used up. We noticed some books had minor differences in the same panels. Bizarre. But yeah, Haddock ftw.
Also I got pissed off when I checked out some of the English versions and saw some of the name changes. It’s Milou, not Snowy. Gah. Haha, sorry, minor rant.

@Symbeline@jellyfish3232@queenie
yeah tintin really rocks! its fun reading all the tintin comics… i had read them from libraries when a decade ago… and now, thanks to torrents and internet, i got the entire ebook collection of tintin on my pc :)
I wish new adventures of Tintin would be written!